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All reports coming to the Iranian Media Alliance by callers from inside Iran indicates massive BOYCOTT.

The Iranian people have clearly rejected the Islamist regime again by overwhelmingly boycotting the Mullah's Election SHOW. The BOYCOTT AGAINST THE MULLAHS HAS A GREAT MESSAGE to the Islamist Regime that they MUST GIVE UP POWER PEACEFULY NOW Or ELSE ....

Tehran, Jun. 17 – The following is a round-up of activities around polling stations across Tehran during the first few hours of the race for a new president in Iran. Despite an appeal by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian capital had an air of silence following opposition calls for a boycott of the elections.

West of Tehran
Most of the dozen polling stations in western Tehran were either empty or had a handful of voters from 9 a.m. till 11 a.m.
In particular, the station in Poung Square at the corner of Homeyl Street was completely deserted.
Sattarkhan and Sardar-Jangal roads were empty though 10 people were spotted standing in a queue to vote in Sediqiyeh street.

Tehran

Voting Centre 71
Saddouqi High School in Akbari Street – Six people were spotted, among them three women. (11:30 a.m. local time)

Voting Centres 68 and 69
Imam Hossein Asgary Mosque in Salehi Street – 12 people were seen lined up to vote, among them five women.

Voting Centre 66
Tarasht Prayer Hall – 15 people were seen lined up to vote. Roughly half were women, and youths constituted a handful of them. (11:30 a.m.)

Voting Centre 81
Hosseiniyeh High School south of Sharif Metro station in Saharvard Street – Seven people were seen at 11:40 a.m.

Voting Centre 22
Nabi Mosque in Daryan-No district – A total of 27 people, including 16 women and 11 men were seen at 11:45 a.m.

Voting Centre 105
Narjes High School, across the road from Rasoul Akram Hosital, in the central Tehran district of Shahr-Ara – Two men and a woman were seen casting ballots at approximately 11:50 a.m.

Voting Centres 88 and 89
Zahra Mosque in Shahr-Ara – Seven women and five men were seen voting at noon.

Voting Centre 102
Al-Qadir School in Shahr-Ara – Six women and four men were seen trying to vote early afternoon.

Tehran, Jun. 17 – With polls open for Iran’s presidential elections, few have so far turned out to take part in the votes.

An hour after polling began, eye-witness described one of Tehran’s usually busiest areas as empty. Poll stations at Tehran-Pars’ Falak-Aval, Falak-Dovom, Jashnvareh, and Route 196 were reported as “deserted”. About an hour later similar situations were reported in Falak-Chaharom in Tehran-Pars.

In Sediqi Street some 15 people were seen queuing at 09:30 a.m. (Tehran time) outside the Saheb-Zaman Mosque in Tehran. Earlier, in Qazvin Street only 20 people were seen lining up to vote in the local Mosque being used as the election centre for Shahrak Farhangiyan district of Tehran, while in Paveh a local resident reported the roads around the voting station were like those of a “ghost town”.

At quarter to eleven reports came in from Tehran-No Street and Zeynabiyeh Street that only State Security Forces could be seen around polling booths.

Between 20 to 25 breaded men and women in black chadors were seen standing at the entrance of Imamzadeh Saleh polling station in Tehran.

In Nabovat Square, official state-run media were filming an old man being given a gold coin for having just voted.

Across Iran similar reports of empty election stations are coming in. Local residents in Tabriz reported at 10 a.m. that people are taking the weekend off. Friday’s in Islamic Iran is the traditionally the last day of the week. Similarly, in the western city of Kermanshah residents reported lack of enthusiasm to take part in the polls.

In the northeaster city of Mashad, one eye-witness said that he saw only 10 to 15 people enter a local school where a voting station had been set up for the Old Street in Rah Qasem district.

In Isfahan, hours after the polls opened two women were seen entering the voting station in Mobarakeh Distirct.

With a fervent opposition call for a boycott of the elections, voting today seemed to have reached a new low, despite a last-minute call today by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for massive voter turnout.

Tehran, Jun. 17 - Residents in northern Iran say that they are being offered money and lunch to take part in today’s presidential elections.

They complained that members of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s campaign team are roaming the streets in cities across Mazandaran province, urging people to vote in return for 250,000 Rials ($25) and a free hot lunch.

One resident said that Haj Moussa Vafayan, head of Mazandaran’s Chamber of Commerce, had ordered his staff to go to nearby towns and villages to offer the sum on behalf of Rafsanjani.

According to a member of the cash-paying team, who wished to remain anonymous, said that a second massive pay-per-vote campaign was planned to start at 2 p.m. until 5 p.m._________________The Sun Is Rising In The West!Soon It Will Shine on All of Iran!

Tehran, Jun. 17 - Residents in northern Iran say that they are being offered money and lunch to take part in today’s presidential elections.

They complained that members of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s campaign team are roaming the streets in cities across Mazandaran province, urging people to vote in return for 250,000 Rials ($25) and a free hot lunch.

One resident said that Haj Moussa Vafayan, head of Mazandaran’s Chamber of Commerce, had ordered his staff to go to nearby towns and villages to offer the sum on behalf of Rafsanjani.

According to a member of the cash-paying team, who wished to remain anonymous, said that a second massive pay-per-vote campaign was planned to start at 2 p.m. until 5 p.m.

This is a good indication for sinking ship and Rotten Dead Regime of Mullahs.

'Voting' time has been extended, in Iran, following the 'electoral' fiasco witnessed by the Islamic leadership. to Yesterday, the regime's supreme leader had requested from Iranians to participate even they wish to deliver a blanc vote.

The regime is hoping to move again its forced or professional 'voters' from one ballot box to another with false ID cards. Credible rumors are stating that ID cards of some deads or even some interned mentally ill Iranians are to be use by plainclothes men for voting several time.

"Your presence at the ballot boxes, will show the legitimacy of the Islamic regime" Khamenei had stated.

Tehran and most Iranian cities remained remained deserted as millions of Iranians stayed home in order to deprive the regime from any opportunity of claiming popular support.

Promises about welfare and distribution of money or food and other governmental needs were not able to bring Iranians to play the regime game. Threats of cutting some governmental aids neither as many Iranians are qualifying them as "slower dying tools".

Many sources are stating that streets and avenues were so empty that "we couldn't find a nail on the street".

The debacle which will force most likely the regime to organize a 2nd round is so big that the governmental TV is showing some footages mixed with reports that can be easily attributed to last years elections.
Source: SMCCDI
URL:
http://daneshjoo.org/publishers/currentnews/article_2558.shtml
thru freeandseculariran yahoo group_________________The Sun Is Rising In The West!Soon It Will Shine on All of Iran!

Yeah because...Iranfocus, where you people get 99% of your information from, and which happens to be one of the largest Iranian opposition sites on the net, is much more reliable on current Iranian affairs then Yahoo news. No bias or propaganda on Iranfocus....no siry bob.

Yes, Asher, the lamoid Los Angeles Times accepted that "long lines" excuse as to why the regime extended the voting times. Poll closing time is now 10 pm, from 7 PM originally.

Should have a big "laugh-in" tomorrow, at which everyone who *didn't* vote can take to the streets to laugh this rabble out of power and out of town! _________________The Sun Is Rising In The West!Soon It Will Shine on All of Iran!

Iran has a population of 70 millions with 2 millions security forces even if you show us 1 million photo it becomes 1.5 %
Out of 1 million Iranians in US the regime might not be able to collect 1000 votes.
We are not interested in your propaganda.
If the Regime had popular support then they would not have so many political executions, political prisoners.
Today the Islamist regime that you are supporting is called Terror and Torture Masters.

Tehran, Jun. 17 – Voting stations across the Iranian capital Tehran were by and large empty today despite an appeal by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for widespread participation in Iran’s presidential elections. Most polling stations had record-low voters and many were empty.

Tehran, Jun. 17 – Voting stations in Tehran were by and large empty today despite an appeal by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for widespread participation in Iran’s presidential elections. Most of the capital’s polling stations had record-low voters and many were empty.

Tehran, Jun. 17 – Polling stations in Iran’s capital were by and large empty today despite an appeal by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for widespread participation in the presidential elections. Most of the Tehran’s voting stations had a record-low turnout and many were empty.

LOS ANGELES Jun 17, 2005 — Iranian exiles are campaigning against Friday's presidential elections in their homeland, urging would-be voters in the Islamic republic and abroad to boycott what they call a sham poll.

In Los Angeles, one of 36 U.S. cities where voting was scheduled to take place, a half dozen television and radio stations that for years have criticized the regime are beaming their message into Iran by satellite and Internet.

Reformers say that whether a hardliner or more moderate candidate wins, the election only legitimizes a system in which religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final word on every important national issue.

"We want to show the world empty streets," said Los Angeles-based TV journalist Homa Sarshar, who works for several of the Los Angeles-area stations that have supported a boycott.

The word also is spread by activists such as Nasrin Mohammadi, 28, a recent immigrant who says her brothers were imprisoned, starved and beaten so severely their feet split open and toenails fell off after their 1999 arrest for leading Iran's student movement.

"I want people to stay home, not only for me, because my family has been destroyed, but so nobody else will have to go through what we have gone through," she said through an interpreter, her voice hoarse from repeating her plea. "We want the people of the world to know that Iranians, especially the youth, do not want this regime."

The Bush administration, which has criticized Iran for its nuclear ambitions and said the government sponsors terrorism, calls the election illegitimate in part because many reform candidates were denied a chance to run. None of the seven candidates was expected to gain 50 percent of the vote, which would force a run-off for the first time in Iran's history.

Turnout in Iran was 68 percent in 2001, down from 90 percent in 1997, when since-weakened reformer Mohammad Khatami was first elected. Khatami is prevented from running for a third term by the Iranian constitution.

Those expatriates who do want to vote may find it difficult. People born in Iran or to Iranian parents are eligible, even if they become citizens of another country, btut first they have to find a polling center.

In this July 2002 photo released by Nasrin Mohammadi, Mohammadi takes part in a hunger strike outside London's Amnesty International offices to bring attention to students like her brothers, whom she says were starved and forced to watch each other being beaten. Behind Mohammadi are photos of her brothers who allegedly have been tortured in prison since their 1999 arrests for leading the student movement in Iran . Voting in the presidential elections begins Friday, June 17, 2005, for Iranian expatriates. (AP Photo/Nasrin Mohammadi)
By LAURA WIDES Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

A number of students taking part in the election stated that Islamic authorities had warned them that if their identity cards did not carry an election stamp, they would not be allowed to take part in university entrance exams.

Due to the fact that Iran is considered as a fear society and some of the people who wished to boycott, forced to participate then they have written anti regime slogans on the vote.